Satoshi Oath

Authors: Jaya Klara Brekke

Keywords: Contract, Development, Ethics, Criticality

First 100 words: In the fall of 2016, Elias Haase at the blockchain training company B9Lab commissioned Jaya Klara Brekke to write a Hippocratic oath for blockchain developers. Their mutual wariness of an emerging blockchain-fundamentalism and its uncritical alliances with old enemies in the monopolistic tech-financial complex inspired this attempt to articulate a different culture for blockchain development: one that encourages a conscious, ‘woke', engagement with making, creating, coding and developing. Here we reprint the Oath, originally published on the IPFS blockchain, followed by a commentary by Haase and Brekke. Satoshi Oath Jaya Klara Brekke Satoshi – name meaning clear thinking, quick-witted, wise…